A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...
“In spite of and, to some extent, because of this selfish and parasitic nature, the movement and accumulation of transposable elements have exerted a strong influence on the evolutionary trajectory of ...
According to Ernst Mayr, species selection is an important driving force in macroevolution, which can explain cases of extinction "that would otherwise not be explicable" (1982, p. 172). Steven ...